davidmwilliams

Ok, an update.

Firstly: Moshu – the reason why http://home.exetel.com.au/davidmwilliams showed in every page was because I set the blog address to that. However, setting the blog address that way – while solving the problem in the sense that the generated links are valid and existant – has the undesired side-effect of not using my preferred domain name.

Secondly: I submitted a bug report. It was just prematurely closed and marked as “invalid” by someone too trigger-happy to tidy up the pending queue by thinking that “here’s a dodgy workaround” equated to resolving a bug. I was later told that guy was “the” resident bug “guru”. I guess that’s merely because his KPI’s look so good from closing incidents so quick.

I’m a bit disappointed by the cold response (and indeed, even the aggressive and offensive response I am getting from some quarters) on this issue.

To my mind, the name of the domain is moot, the ISP used is moot, whether the hosting is paid or not is moot.

Fundamentally, the problem is that I set WordPress’ blog address to http://www.x.com. It correctly generates page links of http://www.x.com/?page=… It correctly generates category links of http://www.x.com/… – yet it incorrectly generates next/prev links of (say) http://www.y.com.

This is a problem, and a bug, and reflects that the next/prev links use different code to the other routines that generate links – and, further, that it is not always respecting the blog address specified in the options.

I downloaded the latest version of tinymce just now and uploaded it to my site but alas, no success – the same problem. 🙁

Ok, I’ll submit this as a bug.

Thanks.

Hmm, well, it may be ‘simpler’ but it wouldn’t be cheaper 🙂

However, I do feel there is a problem here. WordPress is correctly using http://www.alivad.com for all addresses it generates for individual posts, for pages and for categories. It is only with the next and previous page links that it comes up with the seemingly hybrid address of http://www.alivad.com/davidmwilliams.

So, it seems to me, WordPress is calculating the web page address to use in two different ways depending on context. It may be that the next/previous page code is querying the underlying page address rather than the addresses specified in the options page.

I don’t think WordPress “hates” redirected domain names given it is not an uncommon thing to do, although obviously my experience with WordPress is very limited. That said, this is the ONLY location where I can observe a problem; if the next/prev page links worked then everything would show just my preferred domain name as I want.